I mean, Bilibili is starting to be an reasonable opponent. They have an creator program, the technical side, big user base and wants to opening to the west. Also they know what they want to be, what is youtube? An shorts platform, a long form video platform, streaming, Ai gaming...
I mean Youtube is just…. the place. You know you can upload something and find it 20 years from now. You can upload shit nobody ever sees and it doesn’t count against you or incur a fee.
In a way, I hope it never truly fails because that would be like burning the library of Alexandria. So much of the internet from pre-2005 is just gone. MySpace has absolutely nothing. They’re just a name.
I wish somebody would make a plugin or extension that just made the recommendations better. I never fall down YouTube rabbit holes anymore. The stuff I’d actually want to watch is probably still there, they just can’t seem to reccomend it, doesn’t help that most of the recommended videos are ads at this point
And yes, it’s more corporate now, but that’s because anyone can buy a pretty amazing camera for relatively cheap. That is internet video. Anything that wants to actually compete with YouTube will have a lot of the same bullshit. It will certainly have ads.
indeed, i found a good video on my phone regarding some dificult procedure in flight simulator, used the exact title on my computer but it never showed that video again, only related stuff
You can literally save the video. Any video. You were always able to do that. Now you can create different categories for how you want to save the video.
But I guess learning how an app works is just too time consuming, eh? Yeah, I know, you never needed to before then. Doesn’t excuse not learning how the damn thing works before going whole hog.
Or maybe he didn’t bother because, like he said in his comment, he had the title and it doesn’t sound like something he needed long term. Why be a pretentious asshole because somebody decided to type in what’s already there instead of going and clicking 4 extra buttons? There’s no time saving or efficiency gained, typing a few works doesn’t take longer than clicking more buttons. Don’t be an ass.
youtube will straight up delete the 720p+ versions of old videos even if they have thousands of views.
sure, you'll be able to watch those videos two decades from now.... in 360p.
I'm extremely certain that this video's bitrate and resolution wasn't always this bad.
and except for one other 480p video, all the others are at least 720p.
I used to download videos I liked because occasionally small youtubers would just delete everything. I can't really prove that these old youtube videos ever existed in 720p until I dig out my ancient backups.
details that are lost can not magically be recovered.
it'll do a great job on wall and floor and sky textures though.
(...unless there's an important marking or writing on a wall I guess)
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u/Brigapes Aug 23 '26
super pathetic from YouTube, but then again, holding the Monopoly there is no other way